I am sorry to say that this really looks like the INF of the standard Times-Roman font that does not have cyrillic glyphs (and the same was true of your log file).

Yes, Taco, you are right. I was muddled by Extensis Suitcase which displayed Cyrillic text in a font preview mode (probably, substituted?). The font (tir_____.pfb) itself doesn't contain any Cyrillic glyphs, indeed. Thanks a lot for your point. I've abandon the Adobe font and installed Times-Roman from the collection located at at http://freshmeat.net/projects/urw-fonts-cyrillic. Texfont has performed its job excellent and now I'm able to typeset Russian. (The filenames for Times-Roman are n021003l.afm, n021004l.afm, n021023l.afm and n021024l.afm) However, now that Russian seems OK I have stuck with Ukrainian. Despite the fact that this font DOES contain all Ukrainian-specific glyphs (Ie, I, and Yi; if you never saw them then see http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wgl4.html), They cause errors and are replaced by wrong symbols in the output pdf file. My test script is the following ........................................... \loadmapfile[t2a-urw-timescyr.map] \font\myfirstfont=t2a-n021003l \myfirstfont \starttext Hello world! Привет, мир! Добрий день, свiтове! Ukrainian-specific letter are {ЄєIiЇї} % \showcharacters \stoptext And the log file is .................................... This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.5) (preloaded format=cont-en 2006.12.25) 27 DEC 2006 00:50 entering extended mode **test7timescyr.tex \emergencyend (test7timescyr.tex ConTeXt ver: 2006.07.14 12:08 fmt: 2006.12.25 int: english mes: english language : language en is active system : cont-new loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-new.tex systems : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex color : palette rollover is available ) system : cont-old loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-old.tex loading : Context Old Macros ) system : cont-fil loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-fil.tex loading : Context File Synonyms ) system : cont-sys.rme loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\user\cont-sys.rme (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-exa.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-syn.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-enc.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-siz.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-map.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-spe.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\type-akb.tex)) bodyfont : 12pt rm is loaded language : patterns en->ec:ec->1->2:3 uk->ec:ec->2->2:3 de->texnansi:tex nansi->3->2:3 de->ec:ec->4->2:3 fr->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:3 fr->ec:ec->6->2:3 es->ec:ec->7->2:3 pt->texnansi:texnansi->8->2:3 pt->ec:ec->9->2:3 it->texnansi :texnansi->10->2:3 it->ec:ec->11->2:3 nl->texnansi:texnansi->12->2:3 nl->ec:ec-

13->2:3 cz->il2:il2->14->2:3 cz->ec:ec->15->2:3 sk->il2:il2->16->2:3 sk->ec:ec ->17->2:3 pl->pl0:pl0->18->2:3 pl->ec:ec->19->2:3 pl->qx:qx->20->2:3 loaded specials : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded system : test7timescyr.top loaded (D:\~~\test7timescyr.top specials : loading definition file tpd (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\spec-tpd.tex specials : loading definition file fdf (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\spec-fdf.tex) specials : fdf loaded ) specials : fdf,tpd loaded ) systems : system commands are disabled (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\sort-def.tex) (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\sort-lan.tex) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) (D:\~~\test7timescyr.tuo) systems : begin file test7timescyr at line 12 Missing character: There is no ? in font t2a-n021003l! Missing character: There is no к in font t2a-n021003l! Missing character: There is no ? in font t2a-n021003l! fonts : resetting map file list fonts : using map file: lm-texnansi fonts : using map file: original-base fonts : using map file: ec-public-lm fonts : using map file: ec-base fonts : using map file: 8r-base fonts : using map file: t5-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-base fonts : using map file: original-ams-euler fonts : using map file: original-public-lm fonts : using map file: t2a-urw-timescyr (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\pdfr-ec.tex) [1.1{original-empty.map}{lm-texnansi.m ap}{original-base.map}{ec-public-lm.map}{ec-base.map}{8r-base.map}{t5-base.map} {original-ams-base.map}{original-ams-euler.map}{original-public-lm.map}{t2a-urw -timescyr.map}] systems : end file test7timescyr at line 24 system : cont-err loaded (E:\MiKTeX\tex\context\base\cont-err.tex

User file 'cont-sys.tex' not found, 'cont-sys.rme' has been used instead. <

Best regards, Vyatcheslav (A happy user of MikTeX 2.5.)